From NPR.com: A standoff in the Senate over expanding
the government's eavesdropping powers has finally come to a conclusion.
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama left the campaign trail to join in a
series of votes to amend the wiretapping bill backed by the White
House. The Senate then passed the legislation 68-29.

The Senate's
version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provides greater
protections for Americans targeted for surveillance. It also gives
legal immunity to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's
warrantless wiretapping program.

The bill must be reconciled with the House bill, which contains no immunity. Listen. . . [Mark Godsey]